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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 2, 1956
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
August 5, 1926
"Hole in one!" Whether or not
there is a heaven in the here
after, it is true none could bring
greater state of elation to a gol
fer than this accomplishment. So,
of course, Ed Bennett has been
walking on air after his feat last
evening.
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate- Publisher
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents.
Frank S. Parker is leaving this
weekend for a visit with his mo
ther at the old home in Missouri.
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Heppner and all of Morrow county join with
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright In congratulttlng and
being mighty proud of their daughter Patsy Her
appearance on the nation-wide television pro
gram, Voice of Firestone, Monday night marked
the first time anyone from this area, has been so
honored, and It is a compliment to the 4-H leaders
of Morrow county that one of their girls was
chosen to represent all the 4-H club girls of the
nation.
Patsy's poise and confidence before the cam
eras Is ample proof of the value of the training
that 4-H boys and girls get.
The fair board ought to be happy too, for It
Isn't every county fair that gels a nation-wide
plug for Its show such as Queen Patsy gave ours
Monday.
The long-dormant plan for a dam on Willow
creek came to the front again this week when
J. O. Turner, a member of the county water re
sources committee, told the chamber of commerce
that prospects are brighter than at any time In
recent year. He pointed out the state water re
sources board is offering its aid, but the most im
portant need is for a genoral agreement among
those persons who will benefit from such a dam,
just what type of program they would favor and
if they really want it.
There is probably no single project which
could mean . so much to the economy of the
county, yet there has been a decided lack of Inter,
est among a big share of the residents. The plan
presented in past years, as we understand It, was
quite nebulous and loft a lot of questions un
answered, and at the present time the same Is
still true, but the county water resources commit
tee Is tackling the job with vigor and with the
help of residents a workable plan certainly can be
developed that will benefit everyone in this area.
The committee will hold another meeting in
the near future and it is hoped that a good at
tendance will show that there is interest in get
ting an Irrigation and flood control dam built.
Water is this area's most important problem.
A start on solving that problem shouldn't be de
layed any longer.
From The
County Agent's Office
By John Massie
O. W. Cutsforth, Lexington
rancher, last week took a step
toward improving the gaining
ability in his registered Hereford
herd. His purchase of two of the
top gaining bulls offered In the
fourth annual Oregon State col
lege livestock sale will pass on
to their offspring higher gaining
ability. The two bulls made
rates of gain of 3.57 and 2.9
pounds per day. At the same
time, pounds of feed fed per
hundred pounds of gain were
lowest of the entire lot of regis
tered bulls offered in this annual
sale of increase of the college
herd.
Wheat Here Tops
Returning from a vacation trip
of 4600 miles, visiting seven states
have excellent yields, with an in
come surpassing that from bar
ley or other alternate crops
grown on allotment acres. Plants
are well branched with large
bolls, with a good seed set. It
appears that the crop will mature
earlier than was the case last
year, which was shortly after must De marketed elsewhere. The
shining example of what can be
accomplished by planned intelli
gent export promotion of basic
American products may be seen
in the long range program of Ore
gon wheat growers. Wheat is
Oregon's largest farm crop, a soft,
white wheat, ideal for milling
into cake, pastry and biscuit
flours and for blending with
high protein hard wheats for
flours. Yet only aljput 25 of
Oregon's wheat crop is used in
the state for food, feed and seed,
which means that 75 of it
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohn and
Mrs. Frances Rood departed on
Sunday morning in the Cohn car
for an "extended auto trip that
will take them away from Hepp
ner for a period of a few weeks.
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Mrs. G. C. Aiken is in receipt of
word this week from her son,
Cyrus W. Aiken, who is at pre
sent located at Amarillo, Texas,
and engaged in the selling of
real estati with J. W. Crudging
ton, owner and developer of sub
urban property.
David Wilson and family re
turned Tuesday from Ritter.
Mrs. Lenore Taylor and son
Jack of Berkeley, California, were
visitors In Heppner during the
past week, guests at the home of
Mrs. Lena Coleman.
September 1. For those farmers
who have not seen Safflower
growing in a field, this years
crop Is a sight to see. Growers are
Harold Evans, Leonard Rill, Don
ald Peterson, Kenneth Smouse,
Henry George, Ted Palmateer and
Pete Cannon.
Cattle Listing Dropped
The marketing committee of
the Morrow County Livestock
and two provinces in Canada, urowers Association met rues
crops In Morrow county look bet-day evening and decided to drop
ter than in any of the area cover-1 plans for the cattle listing service
eu. mere was no exception to onerea to Morrow county live-
this, including the Palouse wheat 'stock growers. The committee
country between Walla Walla
and Spokane. Grain crops in
the Mid-West generally are very
poor due to a dry, early spring.
Late crops such as flax and corn
show excellent prospects, how-j
ever, in most states, rain was!
needed badly. In North Dakota
alone, millions of dollars are
being paid out under the soil
bank program for wheat that is
being plowed under because of
low yields that would not equal
the soil bank payment.
In Iowa, where crop failures are
unknown, much of the grain crop
Is too poor to harvest, and there
too the soil bank program is quite
popular. Soil bank payments
were varying from $44 an acre In
Iowa to $14.50 In North Dakota in
counties where I visited with
ASC officials. In the wheat coun
try of Alberta, much of the wheat
crop will not be worth harvest
ing. In the flax country farmers
are looking forward to twenty
bushel yields which rarely occur,
pne of the best fields of com seen
on the entire trip was on a farm
owned by Harold Beach, Lexing
ton farmer, on the St. Croix river
In Wisconsin. With the exception
of small localized areas, here
will be no yields of wheat better
than what our Morrow county far
mers are harvesting this year.
Safflower Good
Visiting the fields of Safflower
seeded this year In Morrow county
early this week, John Massie and
I found fields looking excellent.
It appears as though the farmers
growing Safflower tnis yvarwm
was of the opinion that livestock
men here did not care to have
assistance in obtaining addi
tional markets and top prices for
cattle which has been the case in
other Oregon counties where this
practice has been in effect over a
numher of years. The small par
ticipation of livestock men list
ing cattle for sale was the reason
for this decision. Those livestock
men who have sent in their list
ings with a check for the fee to
help defray expenses of advertis
ing will get a refund soon. The
committee decided however, to
refer buyers who have shown an
interest in the listing and have
asked for the list, to these cattlemen.
Wheat Plan Praised
A recent issue of the Harbor
News, issued by the commission
of public docks, gives recognition
to Oregon wheat growers in their
program for development of ex
port markets. A few quotas of
the article are given here: "A
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HEPPNER
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Sunday-Monday, Aug. 5-6
CAROUSEL
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Sunday at 4, 6:30, 9
Tue.-Wed Aug. 7-8
Bottom of the Bottle
Van Johnson
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Dryer $119.50
Norge Automatic
Washer $75
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8 Cu. Ft. Frigidaire
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picture is the same for Washing
ton and Northen Idaho, which
lion that the increase wouia be
retained, although fluctuating
with rice production.
Another favorable factor was
the tremenduous increase in the
population it is estimated that
every ten years there will be a
180 million more mouths to
feed in Asia and it appears
doubtful that food production
can be increased to meet these
demands. The team worked in
Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines,
Singapore. Indonesia, Ceylon,
India and Pakistan and found
definite encouragement in some
countries where wheat was being
adapted to the food habits in
rice eating areas. The Oregon
with uregon, maKe up the paci-1 wheat groups payed an important
fic Northwest wheat growing re
gion. As long ago as 1926, Oregon
wheat growers felt the need for
a united approach to their prob
lems. They organized the Ore
gon Wheat Growers League.
Then in 1946, growers decided
that when post-war world de
mand for wheat declined, sur
plus and acreage controls would
be inevitable. A better approach
they decided, would be to put ex.
perts on the job full time, find
new markets and expanding ex
isting markets for wheat". The
article goes on to outline the es
tablishment of the Oregon
Wheat Commission and the one
half cent bushel tax which pro
vides money for research and
program development to assist in
the surplus problem. "It was de
cided that a representative, each,
from the Oregon Wheat LOague,
from the Foreign Agricultural
Service, and from the Millers Na
tional Federation, form a team
to visit Asia to determine speci
fic projects for each county to
aid in expanding markets for
United States grain products.
The previous missions have
found a significant increase in
consumption of wheat products in
Asia since the war and'indica-
roll in the introduction last year
of a new wheat food called Bul
gar wheat, a popular wheat dish
in the middle east for centuries.
It is made by boiling, drying and
cracking the wheat, resulting in
a product that is high in food
value, yet is easy to prepare into
a tastey dish of high nutritional
value cooking time only fifteen
minutes. The biggest program to
increase consumption of wheat
by Asiatic peoples is that under
way in Japan iready the North
west's biggest foreign wheat cus
tomer, which is also believed to
have the greatest immediate de
velopment potential.
The wheat team has been in
Japan for months working out
eleven promotional projects, con
tracts for four of which have just
been signed. WTieat promotion
efforts of the Oregon Wheat
Growers League at the 15-day
International Trade Fair in Osa
ka, Japan, during April turned
out to be almost too successful.
The exhibit was literally mobb'ed
by crowds of Japanese. On the
final day, in fact, more than 100
police had to be called out to
keep the thousands of people from
completely over-running the
wheat exhibit. As part of the
five-unit exhibit, baking demon-
FALLOUT CLOUD could look much like this
artist's conception following an attack on a tar
ret city, such as the 76 target areas which will
be assumed hit during Operation Alert, 1956
(July 20-26). Radioactive dust In the bomb's
mushroom could be blown 200, miles or more
downwind from the blast area, covering the
countryside with radioactive material which
for days could bring Injury or possibly death to
anyone not under cover. In rural areas, a base
ment, root cellar or "cyclone shelter" would be
the best shield from radiation. Such a shelter
should have food and water for at least seven
days, and a battery-operated standard radio to
receive emergency Instructions from civil defense
broadcasts. (FCDA Photo)
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Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton has asked the Oregon
Supreme Court to halt construc
tion of Pelton dam on the De
schutes river by Portland General
strations of cake mixes made a
big impression on the Japanese
public, millers and bakers, as
did the scones, sweet breads and
other baked goods. A Japanese
home economist and four assist
ants spent full time preparing
and explaining dishes made from
Ala, the new Bulgar wheat food.
Some 100,000 sweet rolls, count
less thousands of samples of Ala
and recipe folders printed in
Japanese were distributed during
the fair. Twice as many people
visited the exhibit as had been
expected. As we said, the work
of the Oregon wheat people,
coupled with efforts of govern
ment agencies is a bright ex
ample of what should and can
be done toward promotion of
world trade."
Electric Co., as it is in violation
of state laws.
The company is going
with construction on a license
from the federal power commis
sion that was upheld by the U.
S. Supreme court and overturned
longstanding interpretations of
state water rights and laws.
In his petition Thornton asked
the state supreme court to take
jurisdiction in the controversy.
He said "the unlawful acts of the
defendant corporation are ad
verse to public interest in that
they affect and endanger use,
control and distribution of waters
of the state of Oregon for irri
gation, municipal or other uses,
and further development of the
public waters as may be in the
best interests of the state of Ore
gon." Previously Thornton asked the
Jefferson county district attorney
to bring criminal action against
the company if he found any
violation of he state law in con
struction actually underway.
The Jefferson county grand jury
failed to find a violation of the
law.
LEGIONARIES TAPPED
Everybody had a roaring good
time at the annual convention of
the American Legion, Depart
ment of Oregon, at Albany last
week. Everybody, that is except
five men who lost a total of $500
reported taken from their billfolds
ahead by a prowler as they slept. Also
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the 1957 convention committee.
They reported that the chambers
of commerce in all the towns in
Oregon were asleep and neglect
ed to put in a bid for next year's
convention.
A resolution was adopted urg
ing Oregon's senators and mem
bers of congress to support the
Legion's veteran security bill.
Don Eva, Portland, was elected
commander of the Legion and
Mrs. Clarence B. Grund, president
of the Legion Auxiliary. The
Auxiliary will instruct memTTers
how to vote 30 days prior to the
state convention.
GAS CHANGEOVER
Monday 120 gas servicemen
started working in the Willam
ette valley converting gas burn
ers from use of artificial to natu
ral gas. On August 6, 400 service
men will be at work in the val
ley adjusting all gas appliances
to natural gas. "This service is
on the Potrland Gas and Coke
Company", says Willamette Val
ley manager Joseph A. H. Dodd.
BALDOCK FREEWAY
Honoring retiring state engi
neer Bladock the state highway
commission by unanimous vote
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